On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 06:56:06PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Oct 2, 2006, at 2:28 PM, Sven Luther wrote: > > > I am building a new image, and uploading it, stay tuned. > > I tried the new image (from http://people.debian.org/~luther/g-i/ > powerpc/gtk-miniiso/mini.iso dated 02-Oct-2006 05:07) on my PowerMac > 3,5 with the Radeon video card. > > /proc/cpuinfo= PowerMac3,5 [69 (PowerMac G4/733MHz Silver)] > lspci= ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV200 QW [Radeon 7500] > /proc/fb= 0 ATI Radeon QW > > > When I did "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk ; debian-installer", > > I got dropped into the text mode installer with the error message: > "Framebuffer not available. Disabling graphical frontend." > I tried it with all combinations of enable/disable of "linux_input" > and "radeon", with the same results. > > > > I also tried it on another machine with ATI Rage128 graphics card > > /proc/cpuinfo= PowerMac3,1 (PowerMac G4 AGP Graphics) > lspci= ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 PF/PRO AGP 4x TMDS > /proc/fb= 0 ATY Rage128 > > I only did this one with both disables in place (unmodified /etc/ > directfbrc file). > > It also gave me the same error message about "Framebuffer not > available" and dropped me in the text mode installer. > > Is it possible that this image is broken in some fundamental way?
huh ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]